10 Taka

Bangladesh Bank's early post-independence note production was almost entirely dependent on De La Rue — a practical necessity given that the country had no domestic printing infrastructure capable of producing secure currency when it separated from Pakistan in 1971. This 1976 issue falls within the first decade of that arrangement, when the design series was being stabilized after the chaotic monetary environment of the Liberation War period and its immediate aftermath.

The P#16 designation places it within a short-lived series superseded relatively quickly as Bangladesh refined its note designs through the late 1970s.